This fight is far from over. The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release a score of the new bill on Monday and Republicans could schedule the first procedural vote as early as Tuesday or Wednesday.

On top of that, Senator Mitch McConnell has cancelled the first two weeks of the Senate’s August recess to have more time to ram the health-care bill through. That also means another two weeks of lawmakers not having to face constituents in their districts furious that their elected officials would take away the care many need to survive.

We were only able to block previous iterations of the GOP’s health-care plans after massive public pressure. It’s time to step up again. Below are five things you can do in the coming week to keep up the fight. To get a weekly email detailing more actions like this, sign up for The Nation’s new “Take Action Now” newsletter.

1. This Monday, July 17, head to DC for an emergency sit-in in the halls of the US Capitol and tell lawmakers: Kill the Bill, Not Us. Training and legal support will be provided for all who risk arrest, and free mass housing in a church is available for anyone who needs it. You can find more information and sign up here.

2. This Tuesday, July 18, join the #KilltheBill day of action. Indivisible chapters have organized many of the health-care actions we’ve seen so far, and this Tuesday their entire network will be taking coordinated action against the bill. The day of action will consist of visits to local senators’ offices, rallies held outside the offices, and visits and demonstrations at senators’ DC offices—all with the goal of bringing lawmakers the health-care stories of their constituents and demanding they vote “no” on Trumpcare. You can find more details and learn how to get involved here.

3. Keep calling. You’ve been asked to do this a lot but it’s still absolutely necessary. You can reach your own senators through the Congressional hotline at (202) 224-3121 or help flood the lines of key Republican senators by using Credo’s phone banking tool.

4. Share Your Health-Care Story. The energy behind this fight has drawn enormous power from the countless number of families who have shared heartbreaking stories about their fears of losing insurance. Indivisible Austin, along with the Children’s Defense Fund Texas and Indivisible KC, has created a website that makes it easy to add your story. Visit protectourcare.us and you can submit a story in writing, through a photo, or by video. The team behind the website will then post it on protectourcare.us, add it to YouTube if it’s a video submission, e-mail it to congressional staffers and tweet it at senators.

5. Donate to organizations on the front lines. Even if you’re unable to attend a sit-in or protest, you can still help by donating to the people who are making them happen. Find out who is organizing in your area or donate to a national group. Two we recommend supporting are ADAPT, a grassroots disability-rights group that has been at the forefront of this fight, and Housing Works, a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS with the mission to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS. Both have been crucial in the fight against Trumpcare and to protect Medicaid. Your money will directly support nonviolent direct action, including legal fees and transportation to DC for activists from around the country.

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The pop-up here at The Nation talks about stopping "Trumpcare" -- but that's an important mistake. We're talking about REPUBLICANcare here -- and the blame needs to be placed where it really belongs.

Trump himself knows nothing about health care issues, and couldn't care less about them in any event.

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Curtis Carpentersays:

July 14, 2017 at 6:03 pm

I understand the immediate need to "kill the bill." But in the long run, isn't it important to recognize that the _real_ need is to find a solution to the American health care crisis? And isn't it pretty clear at this point that no solutions are ever going to be found as long as this issue continues to be treated like a political football rather than as an actual problem that impacts millions of American lives and one that, as 17% of the nation's economy, threatens to bankrupt the entire country?

If ever a "reset" was needed, this is it. Time for those few still-rational Senators -- on both the right and the left -- to start over and actually work the problem rather than each other. W need to drop our demand to "Kill the Bill" (whether "the bill" is the ACA or Republicancare) and start demanding that the congress "Fix the Problem."

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Richard Phelpssays:

July 14, 2017 at 9:41 pm

The problem is insurance company greed. Profiting off of health care dooms us to forever struggle to survive. All modern countries have health care for all. If we eliminate the 25% of health care dollars that get wasted on insurance company profits and overhead, for all those hired to deny claims for care, and the $10 million executive salaries, and institute preventive care, we can have a healthier country for less money. We might even increase our life span to those in many European countries. 💪👍

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Curtis Carpentersays:

July 15, 2017 at 11:13 am

I understand your point Richard, but see the problem from a slightly different perspective, driven in part by my belief that the greed you describe is by no means confined to the insurance companies, but permeates the medical and pharmaceutical industries as well.

And in that light, my take on the problem is that 1) there are no "checks" on the supposed "market" for health care, and 2) that the only agency in our society that might provide those checks is our federal government.

Presently, our government is preoccupied with "winning," rather than solving the fundamental problem of an un-checked medical/pharmaceutical/insurance industry that insists on pretending that it is "market driven."

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Richard Phelpssays:

July 15, 2017 at 2:57 pm

The countries that have health care for all control such costs, like Rx prices etc. we could also do that. The focus has to be on healthcare for all.